I will agree to a point. It is more of the appreciation of what we have done and the personal impact than an actual definition. I do not disagree with the thought that these items can be summed up with a simple word such as data.

I must reiterate the depression/anxiety/ADD post above, also throw in insomnia. I have been through/am going through all of these items. I know that before I had seen a doctor/therapist I was overly frustrated and angry at the notion of recalling trivial information. I couldnt fall asleep because of mind racing and utter shame from what i had/hadnt done during the day (I asian father myself). It took me a long time (pride) to finally say I needed some help (as an undergrad). I am now a graduate student and without the help from my doctors and all the trial (and errors) with medications, I wouldn't be here.

Also items that help me: journals, voice recorders, dark rooms with concentration of light on material I need to learn, looking people directly in the eyes when speaking and never deflecting from, meditation/stretching.

cDNA refers to complementary DNA of a cell. This DNA contains the active or expressed genes. Understanding this sequence and genes of a cell narrows down what the essential genes are for the cellular life. The purpose of this is not only understand the cellular functions, but to be able to create pathways in a cell that is foreign to produce a desired product. This is essential information when dealing with eukaryotes (such as S. cerevisiae, yeast) that have introns (pre-cDNA) in their genetic sequences. Introns are genetic sequences that are only expressed in eukaryotes (pre-transcription), thus cannot be put into prokaryotes.

Genome libraries are strictly the genetic sequence for the organism. This is all the information of the organism.

These libraries are very important to metabolic/biomolecular engineers, microbiologists, genetics...any cellular scientist, because of the informtion they can extract from these data in order to understand the cellular functions/shape/active sites and to construct a pathway (engineers).